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A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF VENUS

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

Price realisedUSD 8,962

EstimateUSD 10,000 - USD 15,000

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A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF VENUS
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
The goddess wearing a belted tunic slipping off her left shoulder and partially revealing her breast, a mantle draped around her waist and over her left arm, holding an apple in her outstretched left hand, her right arm raised, originally holding an attribute in the fisted hand, a crescentic stephane in her center-parted hair, pulled back in a chignon, tendrils falling on her shoulders, on a spool-shaped plinth
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high